Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Poole 136. Text(s): Media Glossatura in Epistolas Pauli, Biblical Commentary. Description: One leaf - Not bound. - Cistercian abbey of Cambron, north of Mons, Hainault (now in Belgium), founded c. 1148; doubtless the Gilebertus . . . Super Epistolas Paulirecorded at Cambron in 1641 and the gillebertus Super epistolas Sti Pauli Completerecorded at Cambron in 1782 (Sanderus 1641, I, p. 355; Planke 1938, p. 55, no. 168); the abbey was suppressed in 1789 and the monks finally left in 1797; at least 34 manuscripts from Cambron were bought c. 1823 from P. J. De Mat (d. 1828), bookseller in Brussels, by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), his MSS 333-62 and 4765-68, together with an unknown number of fragments; from the collection of specimen leaves formed by Messrs. W. H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillipps library in 1945-6, sold by them to George A. Poole in 1947, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958. - De Hamel 2004, p. 39, no. 12b. Part 1: One leaf. Description: - Parchment - 343 x 241 mm - 2 columns, ruled in plummet for 53 lines but the text broken into consecutive blocks of text (written on alternate ruled lines) and commentary (written on the ruled lines themselves), each column 243 mm. by 70 mm. with 8 mm. between columns, prickings in outer margins. The manuscript represented by Poole 136 was already out of date when it was made. The arrangement of the pages, with successive column-width blocks of text, alternating the biblical (in large script) and the Gloss or commentary (in smaller script), is apparently unique among copies of Gilbert de la Porrée. It was invented around 1160 for Peter Lombard’s Magna glossatura (as in nos. 21 and 27 below), and so the manuscript here has the odd feature of being an archaic text in the format of its successor.

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